Evaluation of Social Media Sources

Simington, Carter. "Screenshot". 9/5/2015

Credibility: This comment was posted by the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre which is a research center for the University of Calgary. They have their own website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/siprc/

Location: They are a research group located in Calgary, Alberta. They are not directly related to the issue at hand.

Network: On twitter SIPRC has 204 followers, some of which are businesses.

Content: I cannot find the source of the data that they provide in this tweet, however coming from a University sanctioned program I would believe it to be credible.

Contextual Updates: They usually post in the same topic as this. They are a sports injury site so they post mainly about injury.

Age: The age of this profile is unknown because it is a group page, however the page was created in May of 2013 making it fairly old.

Reliability: I think that the information provided by SIPRC is reliable because it is coming directly from a University.

Simington, Carter. "Screenshot". 9/5/2015

Credibility: The Arthritis Foundation is the one who posted this tweet. They are a foundation looking for a cure to arthritis. They have their own website: http://www.arthritis.org/chapters/new-york/

Location: They are located in New York, NY however I do not believe that that is relevant to the controversy of arthritis.

Network: On twitter they have 1018 followers.

Content: Although they use quotation marks in this tweet, I cannot find the source of their information.

Contextual updates: They are a page dedicated to arthritis which means that a heavy amount of their posts are comprised of arthritis related material, however not all of their tweets connect ACL injuries to arthritis as this one did.

Age: I do not know the age of the specific person who manages the account however the account was created in September, 2011.

Credibility: I would think that this source is credible based on the time that the account has been active as well as their dedication to posting regarding arthritis.